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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no s

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to mens manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. – Francis Bacon

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. – Francis Bacon

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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. – John Berger

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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring. – Otto von Bismarck

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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. – Francis H. Bradley

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To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame. – Captain J. G. Stedman

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Tell the truth and then run. – Proverb

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